Jury to begin deliberations in Kahler murder trial
The jury in the James Kraig Kahler murder case are preparing to begin deliberations.
Kahler is accused of killing his estranged wife, their two teenage daughters and the wife's grandmother in Kansas over Thanksgiving weekend 2009.
Prosecutors and attorneys for the 48-year-old will make their closing arguments Thursday in Osage County, Kansas District Court.
Wednesday in court, jurors heard from a psychiatrist who testified Kahler had the ability to deliberate and to choose to kill, even though he was depressed at the time.
Defense attorneys contend Kahler snapped mentally because his wife was having a lesbian affair and pursuing a divorce. Prosecutors argued the killings were calculated and cold-blooded.
Kahler could face the death penalty for the fatal shootings at the grandmother's home, about 20 miles south of Topeka.
Kahler is a former city utilities administrator in Columbia and in Weatherford, Texas. He resigned from his position as Columbia's Water and Light Director and moved back to Kansas weeks before the killings.
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